US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on June 16 for "Medium transport device and image reading device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,966, issued on June 16, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medium transport device and image reading device" was invented by Masaki Namiki (Kitakyushu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium transport device includes a transport roller unit including transport rollers configured to transport a medium, and a drive unit that drives the transport rollers, the drive unit includes a power transmitting portion, the transport roller unit includes a power transmitted portion, the power transmitting portion and the power transmitted portion are brought into a coupled state by the transport roller unit moving in a direction app...